A FINE AND RARE EARLY 19TH CENTURY FRENCH GILT BRONZE SEDAN TYPE CLOCK WITH GRANDE SONNERIE PULL REPEAT AND AUTOMATON FIGURES BY BREGUET, PARIS
the case of rectangular form and surmounted by a ring handle, decorated with a cache pot emitting scrolling foliage flanking the dial, on a stippled ground, the engine turned bezel enclosing the Arabic white enamelled chapter ring, signed 'BREGUET A PARIS', the centre with skeletonised movement and a pair of gilt, silvered and polychrome decorated figures of noble savages 'au Bon Sauvage' each striking a decorative bell, when the pull repeat cord is activated, one strikes the hours, then both strike the quarters with a ting tang on each bell, once for quarter past, twice for half past and three times for quarter to the hour,
16.5cm high with handle down

The movement is in working order but not fully tested or guaranteed.